Many hard of hearing attorneys struggle with theirdeafness in the court room. They don’t useASL. CART is the only way for them. But many ofthem never heard of CART. A hard of hearingattorney saw a deaf attorney using CART andasked what it was. The deaf attorney told himCART is a must but he must ask the courts forit, and that courts won’t give it to him ifhe doesn’t ask for it!

Passengers making reservations have the optionsof getting accommodations. Many of them eitheroverlook it or ignore it. If deaf passengersdon’t request accommodations, airlines may notknow about their deafness. One airline saiddeaf passengers can refuse deafness accommodations!

— many jobs or no jobs

A newspaper headline today said:

2018’s challenge: Too many jobs, not enough workers

Many available jobs for deaf jobseekers? Yet,many deaf people are not employed! Why?

Deaf people love to travel. We have quite a few deaf travel tours; we have deaf people that are travel professionals; we even have one deaf man that traveled to 107 nations, and so on. Yet, it is surprising to see a comment by someone:

I think that deaf people often think that it’s complicated to leave the house, because they need support

That comment was not made by a hearing person but by a deaf man! A picture is at:

A deaf person was admitted to a hospital. He requested an interpreter; the interpreter showed up and interpreted the communications betweeen the doctor and the deaf patient. The interpreter then left for his next assignment. Suddenly the deaf person became ill; the doctor rushed to his bed, but no interpreter was around to explain what was wrong. These are nightmares that hospitals hate to deal with.

— deaf immigrants learning ASL

One ASL teacher said that many deaf immigrants have never been formally educated. The ASL they learn becomes their first language. This comment was made by ASL teacher, not in USA but in Canada. Because of tougher laws on immigration in USA, more deaf immigrants instead go to Canada.

We are researchers in the sign language linguistics lab at the Universityof Chicago (Prof. Diane Brentari, Director), seeking ASL signers to helpus with research about fingerspelling in ASL.

Signers will be paid to help us annotate examples of fingerspelling fromvideos, using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service.

These annotations will contribute to a project working towards developingsoftware that can interpret fingerspelling automatically from videos.

Description of work— As a worker on the project, you would watch videos in ASL and mark thefingerspelling you see in each video.— All work is done on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service and workers on theproject are paid for each video they complete.— This is a great way to earn some extra money, and can be done anytime andfrom anywhere.

Gallaudet has reached agreement with the PeaceCorps to train interested students that wishto volunteer for this federal service program.In the past there were some Gallaudet graduatesthat served in the Peace Corps – but it was ontheir own without help or involvement fromGallaudet. This agreement makes it officialthe Gallaudet involvement.

— The Boston Public Schools may face lawsuits

The Boston Public Schools is worried about lawsuits.One reason is not encouraging input from the deafcommunity on educational needs of deaf studnets!Keep in mind no one likes the idea of decisionsmade on their behalf without consulting themfirst. This is called – input.

A deaf person who attends worship services regularlyin a deaf-operated church told DeafDigest editorsomething interesting. The church is attended bydeaf people that graduated from deaf schools andalso by mainstreamed deaf people. Do they mingletogether? No – one half of the church is seatedby mainstreamed people and the other half bythose from deaf schools. And even during theafter-service reception, both groups are stillsplit apart! He said he was not too happy about it.

— news programs captions

Deaf people watching captioned news programs maynot realize one thing. It is that when the programshows people from other nations, the captions arein English, but the voices these people speak arenot in English! Hearing people know it, but manydeaf people don’t know it.

In a workshop, a consultant told the participantsthat they must know their ADA rights, meaningknowing which states obey and which disobeyADA laws. And the same goes for which privatebusinesses and public facilities follow ADAand which don’t. This means who captions andwho doesn’t and who provides interpreters andwho doesn’t!

— need to be careful before taking I/T job

Many I/T employers are not deaf friendly.While there are ADA laws, the workingenvironment is often unfriendly andhostile. And promotional opportunitiesare often lacking for these deaf employees.